Deborah Hyland wrote: > > The next question I had was whether the circles got progressively bigger or > > whether it was always circles of 4. Thanks so much!
And Tony Parkes replied, in part: > One could conceivably use a Texas do-si-do (now called do-paso just about > everywhere) with circles of six or more. ... True. However, the Colorado docey-doe discussed earlier in this thread, where women begin by switching places with each other--either by a left shoulder pass [something like a left half gypsy] or by rollaway type action with the "opposite" gent--doesn't generalize naturally to a circle of more than two couples. In any case, regardless of whether you use the basket in a cumulative (4,6,8) or single visiting form, you of course get to match it with whatever chorus figure(s) you think will be accessible and fun for the dancers at your event, and that needn't necessarily include any variant of docey-doe. --Jim
